Leaving the Left Behind
Arnold Kling at TechCentralStation makes no bones about being a Libertarian. While we at GRIH try not to embrace any explicit political philosophy this article by Kling examines the thought processes that many of us have gone through to arrive where we are today.
Kling notes:
My undergraduate economics professor, the late Bernie Saffran, exposed students to a variety of viewpoints, from Marxist to libertarian. But he revelled in showing us cases where policy intentions conflicted with policy results. The point that self-interest in a market context can lead to good outcomes, while good intentions in government regulation can lead to bad outcomes, was driven home.
In other words, individual freedom and free markets work better than government regulation and interference.